The Department of Government Efficiency uploaded an enormous Social Security database to an unsecured cloud in June, risking the private information of hundreds of millions of Americans, per a new ...

A collection of leaked internal Google privacy cases provides a rare glimpse into the company’s volume and handling of breaches, accidents and other incidents. 404 Media obtained and pored through the ...

The National Institutes of Health didn’t ensure that the entity housing personal health information of over 1 million people — including biosamples — implemented proper cybersecurity protocols, ...

Department of Government Efficiency members stored a copy of a massive Social Security Administration database in a “vulnerable” custom cloud environment, putting more than 300 million people’s ...

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer. By Nicholas Nehamas ...

It’s a time when large datasets are being leveraged for real-time analysis. Tried-and-true approaches to cobbling together technologies and policies to achieve workable data governance and security ...

According to recommendations from the Social Security Administration (SSA), here are seven steps you should take if your personal data has been breached: Visit IdentityTheft.gov. File a report and get ...

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The Trump administration yesterday issued a lengthier denial of a whistleblower’s allegation that DOGE officials at the Social Security Administration (SSA) copied the agency’s database to an insecure ...

The Department of Government Efficiency has turned its attention to the Social Security Administration database after Elon Musk claimed that tens of millions of dead people are still collecting ...

The rapid of exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, such as MOVEit, and the effectiveness of ransomware attacks are two of the major findings from last year’s breach data. Cyber criminals are ...